Imperial College London scientists say microbes on asteroid samples from Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission have down to Earth ...

A study of fossilized feces and vomit attempts to piece together why dinosaurs were so evolutionarily successful.

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

Duck-billed dinosaurs, also called Hadrosaurs, were common during the Cretaceous period in Europe, North America, and Asia.

Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences revealed that a colossal asteroid impact over 3.26 billion years ago may have provided a crucial boost to Earth's early ...

Hundreds of pieces of fossilised faeces and vomit show how dinosaurs became Earth’s dominant land animals — plus, the search ...

Asteroid Ryugu photographed by Japan's Hayabusa2 mission at a distance of about 12 miles (19 kilometers). JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba ...

leading to the theory that planetary gravity could be responsible for refreshing the surfaces of such space rocks. Apophis, a 1,100-foot-long (340 meters) asteroid named after the Egyptian god of ...